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Need some help please:

In bar 1, what does the little 16 note symbol following the first note indicate? As I understand it, the dotted first note gets 1 1/2 beats, the next note ( an eight note), 1/2 a beat, and the last two quarter notes a beat each for a total of 4 beats. If this is correct, then I don't understand what is meant by the 16 note symbol?

How do you count bar 13 to get the four beats? I think the first triplet of quarter notes gets 2 beats, the next quarter note 1 beat, but then I have trouble coming up with the remaining 1 beat.

Thanks very much for these lessons and the music!

Al